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US Coup in Ukraine Has Produced Religious Persecutions

Jelena Rakocevic
Sott.net
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 15:41 UTC
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C14 fascists
When the democratically-elected President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in the bloody US-backed coup of February 2014, turning Ukraine against Russia, one of the beneficiaries was Ukraine's 'anti-Russian church': the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP).

This church was established in 1992 by a former Metropolitan of the Moscow Patriarchate, Filaret (Denisenko), after he failed to be elected Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). This caused him to break entirely from the church and create a new one in Ukraine. Later in 1995, when the elected head of this new church died, Filaret declared himself Patriarch of the UOC-KP.

Today, the intensely anti-Russian post-coup Ukrainian Government is allowing Filaret's clergy to lead their congregations in raids to take control of the churches and other facilities of the original Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate, UOC-MP).

Furthermore, Filaret's speeches are openly hostile toward residents of the far-eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, where over 90% of the local population had voted for the overthrown President, and then refused to accept the coup-regime and thus declared the breakaway republics of Luhansk and Donetsk.
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Trump meets with NRA lobbyist day after unexpected gun proposals

Haley Britzky
Axios
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
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President Trump met with NRA Executive Director Chris Cox on Thursday, after a roundtable on Wednesday during which Trump took positions that are anathema to the group.


Comment: In the wake of any mass shooting, talk of gun control comes back into the public sphere, with both sides adamantly arguing their position to the point of hysterics. Could Trump actually manage to appease both sides and institute changes, or is he just telling both sides what they want to hear?

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It's the EU, not Russia, who is the meddler in elections - Italian Journalist


Sputnik
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 18:35 UTC
Jean-Claude Juncker
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Jean-Claude Juncker
The harder the EU tries to impose its thought control on people in some of its member states, the less willing they will be to toe Brussels' line, Sputnik Italy observer Marco Fontana said.

"There is a great deal of outside meddling in Italian politics, but it is coming from EU leaders, like Jean-Claude Juncker, rather than the imaginary "troll factory" in St. Petersburg," Fontana noted.


Comment: US Establishment Hysterical About Russian Trolls - Even Pro-Gun Tweets Are Their Fault


Juncker recently told reporters that "early March is very important for the EU. There will be referendums in Germany and Italy and I'm particularly worried about the outcome of the Italian elections. We need to be prepared to see the Italians failing to form a working government and, instead, having a provisional one."


Comment: "Europe can go f*ck itself": Italy's right party leader sees rise in popularity


Comment: See: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Olympic Politics, Aleppo 2.0, and Russiagate to Nowhere

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Russian deputy defense minister: 'US eyes encircling Russia with 400 anti-ballistic missiles'


RT
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:39 UTC
Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile launch system
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Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile launch system
While the West blames Moscow for a new arms race, the US is creeping to Russia's borders. A Russian defense official said some 400 anti-ballistic missiles will pop up on the country's doorstep as part of the US military buildup.

"A large-scale effort is ongoing to encircle Russia with an anti-missile shield. Anti-missile defense sites have been already seat up on US soil in California and Alaska," Alexander Fomin, Russia's deputy defense minister, said on Friday in an interview with the Russia 24 TV channel. Washington has in fact long been expanding its anti-missile shield into Europe. In 2016, a $800 million ballistic defense site went into operation in Romania.

Last year, the US for the first time deployed the Patriot long-range anti-aircraft missiles to the Baltics to use them in large-scale NATO wargames in Lithuania.

Comment: See also: Putin's clear message: West needs to stop provoking a war we don't want, no one can win

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Iraqi FM Ibrahim Jaafari says that Iraq 'will never allow US bases on its soil'


PressTV
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:23 UTC
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A US trooper is seen in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, on June 21, 2017

Iraq says it will under no circumstances permit the United States to build permanent military bases on its soil, which would be a violation of its sovereignty.

"Baghdad firmly rejects the construction of US military bases on its soil," said Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Jaafari at the end of an extended visit to Russia on Friday.

Iraq will "not stand on ceremony" when it comes to the protection of its sovereignty, he said.

He said that, back in 2014, when Baghdad asked for international help in fighting the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh, it said the potential contribution had to meet the requirements of Iraq's sovereignty and independence.

Comment: See also: Iraqi interest in purchasing Russian S-400 missile systems leads to threat of sanctions from US

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'Bring it on or swallow it whole' - Russian reactions to US media distorting Putin's words (VIDEO)

Inessa Sinchougova
FRN (Fort Russ News)
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 09:29 UTC
Bring it on

The Lady vs The Bitch
On March 1st, Russia's President Putin delivered his annual address to the Federal Assembly. In what was a 2 hour long presentation, inclusive of internal matters and economic issues, the US media picked up on a segment in which he unveiled a number of new Russian technologies in the nuclear sphere. He made it precisely clear, that the weapons were developed in response to the US unilateral withdrawal from the ABM Treaty 1972, which allowed it to place their "missile defense" systems in Europe, and new systems are due to be placed in Asia - thereby completely surrounding Russia from all sides.

Shortly after, US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert refused to discuss questions with Russian journalists present at the US State Department media briefing. In response, Russia's equivalent, Maria Zakharova, promised to segregate US journalists in Russia into "special seats", accusing the US State Department of a racist and outdated mentality.


Comment: See also: US State Dept. spokesman snubs journalists during briefing: 'Oh, you're from Russian media? Next question!'

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Target: Russia: NATO sprawl creeps into Eastern Europe - and there are no more illusions about its purpose

Robert Bridge
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
NATO in Eastern Europe
In the past, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) justified its militarization of large swaths of Eastern Europe by pointing to the omnipresent threat of terrorism, or some 'rogue' foreign state, inherently understood to be Iran. Today the mask has slipped and it is no longer denied that NATO's primary target is Russia.

But first, a trip down nightmare lane. The road to ruin - at least as far as US-Russia relations were concerned - began immediately following the 9/11 terror attacks. Three months after that fateful day, in December 2001, George W. Bush informed Vladimir Putin that the US was withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, a strange move considering that the treaty had kept the peace between the nuclear superpowers since 1972. This geopolitical "mistake," as Putin rightly defined it, allowed the US to begin the process of deploying a missile defense system, smack on the border with Russia, allegedly to shield the continent against an attack by Iran. Never mind the fact that Tehran had absolutely no reason, not to mention the wherewithal, to carry out such a suicidal mission. But Washington has never been one to let facts get in the way of a forced move on the global chess board.
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False flag snipers murdered 100s of protesters in 2014 Kiev riots to force coup (Russian TV news)

Ed Peters
Russia Insider
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 00:01 UTC
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This has been public knowledge for about three years and widely discussed and proven in the alternative media, but for some reason Russian state television has chosen to start talking it up now.

Partly it is because of a ratcheting up of tensions in Ukraine which look like they could break into a hot war, and Moscow's desire to deflect this possibility as much as possible.

This video is a hard-hitting recap of the known facts, with the latest revelations, from Russia's #1 anchor, Dmitry Kiselyov.

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US State Dept. approves $47M worth of anti-tank missiles to Ukraine


RT
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 21:13 UTC
anti-tank missile
© Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Javelin Anti-tank missile
The US Department of State has signed off on the sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles to the government of Ukraine, the Pentagon has confirmed. The deal is valued at $47 million and needs congressional approval next.

If approved by Congress, the deal would involve the sale of 210 missiles and 37 command units, Defense News reported, citing Pentagon sources. The Pentagon claims it will not affect the military balance in the region, where the Kiev government is locked in conflict with two regions in the east of the country. Kiev has been accusing Moscow of backing the rebels, to the point of officially designating Russia an "aggressor" state.

"The Javelin system will help Ukraine build its long-term defense capacity to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity in order to meet its national defense requirements," the Pentagon said in a statement.
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Police interrogate Netanyahu and his wife for corruption charges


Sputnik
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:23 UTC
Bibi & wife
© The Times of Israel
On the way to interrogation...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's questioning is connected with two separate breaches of trust cases: one is code-named Case 3000 over allegations of bribes and the second one dubbed Case 4000 over suspicions of influencing media coverage in his favor.

This Friday morning began for the Israeli prime minister and his wife with the arrival of police forces, as the Jerusalem Post newspaper reports: Benjamin Netanyahu was questioned in his official residence in Jerusalem, his wife, Sara, was simultaneously testifying over her engagement in the "Bezeq affair," otherwise known as Case 4000 at the Israeli national police headquarters.

Case 4000 is connected with suspicions that while working as communications minister in 2014-2017, in addition to his prime ministerial post, that Netanyahu was helping the Bezeq group, controlled by Shaul Elovitch, in exchange for a beneficial image of Netanyahu and his policies in the media.

Sara Netanyahu, for her part, is suspected of communicating with Elovitch's wife, Iris, aiming to secure favorable coverage in another media outlet, Walla.

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